Medicaid insurance in old age

This presentation was also given at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum on Structural Microeconometrics (20-21 June, 2016) and the 1st Rome Junior Conference on Applied Microeconomics Rome (23-24 June, ...

01 Nov 2016

Journal article | American Economic Review

The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees.